Directional coarsening in Ni-base superalloys: Analytical results for an elasticity-based model

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 455, Issue 1988, 1999, Pages 3085-3106

  Schmidt, I ^a,b   Gross, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elastic inclusion; Microstructural evolution; Rafting; Stress coarsening

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746422993     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1999.0441     Document Type: Article

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